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Rats and trads
Two types of intellectual fundamentalism
Comparing up and down
Choosing your reference class for happiness or growth.
Paper AI Tigers
Making sense of current Chinese AI
Tallinn
There and back again
Ways we can fail to answer
Fundamental barriers to knowledge
Why is quality rare?
Why in general is it harder to do things well than badly?
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A Life Really Worth Living
new version of my class on the meaning of life
Bayesianity
Class on the closest thing to a unified theory of science and reason
Transnormalism
in which human enhancement won without thinking
AI in 2025: gestalt
300 takes in search of an opinion
My politics
Paper AI Tigers
Making sense of current Chinese AI
The jailbreak argument against LLM values
Writeup of a folk argument I didn't come up with